The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level …

The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time …, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a result, a large proportion of the poor … poverty measured in terms of average expenditure of the households. Thus, incidence of poverty in India declined from 52 per …

around a constant income distribution to illustrate why standard measures of poverty, built on the intuitions of unchanging …

This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and …

escape mechanism in the context of poverty dynamics, especially in a predominantly agrarian economy such as India. The … discourse on poverty reduction however, has often overlooked some of the major concerns of natural resource management, despite … recognizing the criticality of agricultural growth for reducing rural poverty in the country. This paper presents an overview of …

The poverty scenario in Gujarat is marked by three features: (1) low incidence of poverty (2) spatial concentration and … (3) adoption of targeted policy for poverty reduction. One of the important highlights of the initiatives by the … individual/household as well as area based approach for alleviation of multi-dimensional poverty across the regions in the state …

analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …

Ironically the poverty situation, as reflected in the official statistics, depicts a rather contrary scenario with … dryland regions having lower incidence of poverty despite their adverse agro-climatic conditions vis-à-vis the forest based … regions. Understanding these dynamics is very important for formulating a long-term strategy for the amelioration of poverty …

inequality is one of the important features of poverty in India. Besides inter-regional variations, there also exist a large … number of spatial poverty traps characterised by four major categories of regions, viz., remote, low potential or marginal … poverty traps. The multiple and mutually reinforcing disadvantages or deprivation faced by most of the spatial poverty traps …